Best of luck Scott and I second what Riverhunter said. I've been in that spot before and landed one of the best jobs I had shortly afterwards.

Save your solidworks assembly file as a part file.

Absolutely run it in a machine you hate

Ditto

Same to you M&M, hope everyone has a great holiday!

On 11/22/2023 at 9:50 AM, #Rekd™ said:

I have said this before....whoever buys Module Works will rule the kingdom!

 

Hmmm, you think they'll take my check?

Ztommy, I wanna ask do you know how it became corrupted? Were you bringing your previous config forward or starting fresh with the new install default?

We had used it on our Hermle C600 that had a Heidenhain control.

WOOHOO! I've graduated I'm no longer a Toad!

Onward and upward to Botdom!

Was or is this really a bot? I thought Bob's a regular member on here?

Here's a couple that might help.

https://www.seelyeplastics.com/engineered-plastics

https://precisionpunch.com/machine-grade-polycarbonate-plate/

I know you can right click in the window and select "reset sort" but it will put it to the following:

Reset sort

Returns the planes grid column sorting to the default sorting.

With our network license I've seen it hang for several minutes acting like it's doing nothing. in the end it's allot of times our network and network securities that I believe are slowing it up.

Once it's up it works fine.

Years ago Roger Peterson recommended using the SW certified drivers and whenever i've had issues this has usually taken care of it.

Definitely never run on the windows drivers or dell's =(

We've had level issues pop up randomly and yesterday it was issues with the transform also just as stated above.

This may be a dumb question but are all the computers on the same network feed (sorry not sure of the right term). Ex. is the one that is slow say on a splitter or hub that has multiple other computers tied to it thus limiting it's bandwidth?

I believe your right Pete, we used to if I remember create our batch files to generate the NCI's overnight to review them the next day. you were looking at those NCI files to backplot and then post...if I remember correctly...shoot what'd I have for breakfast... oh well let's eat again

1 hour ago, gms1 said:

Some things don't require modern stuff, hell most modern stuff is just designed to fail so you shovel more money in someone else's pocket to fix it.  At the end of the day, a contour is still a contour.

That's why I still love and use the wireframe toolpaths to this day!

I find it's a blend of what everyone said. You want the strongest tool you can use but you have to really keep the effective radial angle of engagement in mind that you want to use for the dynamic milling.

Right tool for the right job, but more often than not I use what I have on hand

What if you were to create a custom post to output a program with all of your tools being used in the program. If you made it a practice to run that program first before the actual lights out at least someone should have verified the tooling to be run.

Or I'm sure there's some smart individuals here or your re-sellar that could put in a custom switch to prompt you at posting if you'd like to post out the tooling first and then the program itself or something along that line.

With the Raster to vector you have a couple of options.

Have the file sized appropriately before you import it or bring it in and do your geometry creation at the pictures current size and then scale your geometry.

You are stuck with having to manually create everything you wish to have for geometry if you want the picture to be visible while working on it. Saving grace is start with say a bounding box or reference geometry that you can use to generate your ongoing entities from. That way you have a reference to work from. 

Not as nice as some other software's but doable depending on the complexity of what your striving to go after.

If you use the raster to  vector and choose the manually trace bitmap image you can bring an image into your file.

And just for reference this was Bugsy who was my test subject

multisurf contour toolpath or even just a 2d swept.

19 hours ago, crazy^millman said:

Because it depends on your settings and how you are setting them. Then there is the if you don't set this certain that a certain way you get this other behavior that can do this thing that well if you don't think about the other that that is this for that you are really stuck trying to figure out why that was this thing when in all reality that other thing was really the thing that was controlling the whole process. Without something to follow you with what I just typed makes about as much sense.

Holy crap I think I need more coffee definitely...this made total sense.

I'm going back to bed.

5 minutes ago, cncappsjames said:

Gonna take the plunge this morning.

No turning back. 2023 will be installed and 2022 will be uninstalled. Wish me luck.

Doing the same thing here =)

Good luck to ya and everyone else!

I believe you set it here in your config file: